I had a notion he was dodging me all the way I came, for I saw him just behind me, turn which way I would.

As soon as the corpse was placed on the pile, and some prayers muttered by the attendant Bramin, fire was set to it at one of the corners, and the wood being dry, and in great quantity, it soon blazed up and consumed the body to ashes, without any noisome smell, such as however does not unfrequently happen if there is a scant of wood, or rain intervenes to damp it.

And teach customs, which are not lawful for us to receive, neither to observe, being Romans.

The temperate affinities of this subtropical sub-humid sandveld are with the relatively cool section of a gradient within temperate bushveld, characterized by, e.g. Protea and Faurea species.